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And no, running HTML 5 does not make a closed proprietary device magically open.

Panopticlick - "How Unique - and Trackable - is Your Browser?". Test site from the EFF. Turning on NoScript helps significantly.
The jQuery Cross-Domain Ajax Guide - A whole list of ways to work around cross-domain restrictions.
Rails Security Review Checklist - Sara Allen pulls together some notes.
Diff for gist.github - Another useful GreaseMonkey script.
Postgresql 8.3 on Debian Lenny - Pretty easy to install and configure, actually.

Created at: 26.01.2010 12:32, source: A Fresh Cup, tagged: Double Shot firefox jquery linux rails

Yesterday's catches in the link sea...

VPS Performance Comparison - Slicehost, Linode, Prgmr, Rackspace, Amazon. Linode is the clear winner in this one.
Linux performance basics - I really need to learn more of this stuff.
Firefox 3.6 Tips and Tweak - Tab previews, change the open link behavior, a few more.

jWizard

documentation

demos

Introducing the Dirty Associations Plugin - Interesting idea, not so sure about the name.

It was a busy weekend - apparently for other people as well as for me.

couch.io - Managed hosting and support for CouchDB.
UTC vs Ruby, ActiveRecord, Sinatra, Heroku and Postgres - Some notes on time zones in ruby web apps.
SSL Certificate Check - From DigiCert, but works for any SSL site. A fast way to tell whether you have things configured and installed correctly.
Rapid Application Deployment with Git - Nice new workflow from from Webbynode. I need to dust off my Webbynode account and play with this.
pgtune - Automatic configuration tuning utility for PostgreSQL.
Active Record Query Interface 3.0 - Shiny new finders for Rails 3.
jQuery QueryString Plugin - Came in handy for hooking up Rails controller methods and stuff inside the jQuery.
Getting Up to Speed with Rails 3 - Detailed look at moving over an existing Rails application.
jQuery.sheet - Excel-ish spreadsheet implemented in jQuery.
Git Branch Auto-Tracking - Useful tip from Mike Champion.
MySQL Tip: How To Check, Repair & Optimize All Tables in All Databases - I never knew about mysqlcheck, but now that I do I'll likely be using it again.
murder - Deployment via BitTorrent, courtesy of Twitter. Cute idea, but the number of sites that need this is vanishingly small.

Created at: 20.01.2010 14:56, source: A Fresh Cup, tagged: Double Shot jquery kumofs ruby solr sphinx

jQuery Lint - Script to report incorrect usage of jQuery APIs.
kumofs - A fresh distributed key-value store for Ruby.
Code Blocks: Ruby's Swiss Army Knife - An excerpt from the Ruby Best Practices book.
JavaScript grid editor: I want to be Excel - A big survey of grids available for jQuery and others.
ThinkingSphinx exits, enters ActsAsSolrReloaded - The competition between search libraries for web applications will never end.
How many Ruby Hackers does it take to change a lightbulb? - Lots.

Some odds and ends before I fling myself at a pile of tax paperwork.

paper_trail - Looks like a very thorough auditing/versioning plugin for ActiveRecord.
Importing Legacy Data in Rails - An approach to wiring things up so you can grab data from a still-running legacy system as needed.
Cappuccino On Rails - Rich front end, Rails back end, have fun.
jQuery 1.4 API Cheat Sheet - Online (with links to the official API site), PDF, or PNG.
jQuery 1.4 Released - The official announcement and what's-new list.
Puppet Documentation - New site for help with this server management framework.
whitespace-tmbundle - Strip trailing spaces and tabs when saving a file from TextMate.


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